Larissa Vassilian

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Larissa Vassilian (born June 17, 1976 in Konstanz ) is a German journalist of German- Armenian origin. She became known under her stage name Annik Rubens with her podcast “Schlaflos in München” (SiM), which she ran from 2005 to the end of 2014 and with which she reached around 10,000 listeners with each episode. This made her one of the most successful podcasters in the German-speaking area. She lives in Munich.

Life

Vassilian was born as the daughter of the German painter from Lower Bavaria Sylvia Vassilian and the Armenian graduate computer scientist Rouben Vassilian. She attended the Franz-Marc-Gymnasium in Markt Schwaben . After graduating from high school, she studied American cultural history , political science and ethnology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1995 to 2003 as part of a master’s degree . In 2003 and 2004 she completed a distance learning course in Freelance and Feature Writing at the London School of Journalism .

Journalistic career

Vassilian initially went through several journalistic positions as an intern and freelance worker in various print media. Among other things, she worked as a generalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Ebersberg , the evening newspaper and, for a very short time (three days!), For the Munich edition of the Bildzeitung (2001). Further activities led her to the go> city magazine in Munich and from 2004 to 2005, among other things, as editor of the television & cinema department of GONG and Bild + Funk . As a freelancer, she wrote cinema reviews for the Baden-Württemberg youth newspaper yaez ( Yaez Verlag ) from 2003 to 2007 , for which she will write again from 2009. She is also active for radio stations such as SWR and Bayerischer Rundfunk and regularly writes articles on the topics of Internet / computers / new media. Since 2008 she has been writing short video columns as an opinion maker for the zoomer.de portal , which was discontinued in 2009.

Podcasting

In addition to “Schlaflos in München”, which started in 2005, she and Timo Hetzel ran the podcast “Films and so” until October 1, 2006, for which there was also a video podcast.

Vassilian actively runs a few other, lesser-known podcasts called Audible Hörletter (commercial) and Handling Hören . The commercial podcast trackcast and the podcast podparade (for Bayern 3 ) were discontinued, and she produced the first three episodes for the IKEA podcast . Her podcast Annik's listening tip has been moved to a section of "Schlaflos in München". She also created the podcast portal 99 podcasts . She also records the extremely successful podcast Slow German in English-speaking countries , with which she gives German students the opportunity to practice their German.

SiM suspended her on September 19, 2006 in favor of a creative break with the 400th episode. On December 5, 2006, she started the second season of "Sleepless in Munich" as a weekly podcast with episode 401. On March 19, 2015, Vassilian published the 673rd and final episode of SiM. Here, together with Jens-Uwe Krause, she introduced the new and very popular Podvela column in which she wrote letters with him. The rubric was discontinued after Krause started parental leave in December 2008. Since 2006 she has been a workshop lecturer for the “Music Journalism” course at the University of Music and Theater in Munich, she also teaches at ems , the Electronic Media School in Babelsberg, at the German School of Journalism in Munich, at the IFP in Munich, the SAE, the VHS and other educational institutions.

Since March 2009 Vassilian has been broadcasting a video podcast called Ersatz-TV together with the fictional character Moose, the elk, the last episode of which was shown in May 2010.

In March 2010 Vassilian started a joint podcast entitled Na Servus with Alexander Wunschel. In the 14th episode, she announced the birth of her first son at the end of November 2010.

In November 2014 Vassilian finished her podcast "Schlaflos in München" after 10 years and 673 podcast episodes. The last episode was titled "Over and Out".

Prices

  • In 2005 Vassilian received the award in the Non-English Winner category at the US Podcast Awards .
  • In 2006 she received an honorary award at the first German Podcast Awards .
  • 2008 European Podcast Award, winner in the "Personality" category

more publishments

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "It's like a familiar answering machine banter" . Germany radio . January 25, 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2013
  2. ↑ www. Ersatz.tv
  3. ↑ www.naservus.de
  4. ↑ Hello, episode 14
personal data
SURNAME Vassilian, Larissa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rubens, Annik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy